Beautiful day for a walk this morning! Wish you could have gone with me. It is still warm enough to enjoy the walk and the colors are really beautiful.

I was just reading in my diary from this week in November in 1986 and the temps were in the single digits at night. Brrrrr! I'll take this weather any day. I was also noticing that that time was the last time that we were all together as a family. Us girls had just moved to Indiana and nobody had jobs yet so we were able to get up and eat breakfast together and each seemed to spend the day on project of their own. Mom looked at a lot of magazines, Sharon worked in the barn, Lois made wood projects in the workshop, I built dog pens or duck pens or chick pens and also spent a lot of time drawing. Sarah had her school to do. Sharon and Mom fixed good suppers and had them on the table and ready to eat when Daddy walked in the door. We usually spent the remainder of the daylight helping Dad with one of his projects. After dark and the dishes, with no tv, time was spent knitting, reading, drawing, piano practice or just enjoying conversations with each other. Usually someone would pop some popcorn and Mom would sometimes eat hers in buttermilk. YUCK! My diary is full of job hunting during this time and soon every body found jobs. For the next 5 years there was a lot of coming and going with all the jobs and those long winter evenings faded into just memories. Then the men started coming around and the girls started leaving one by one and starting memories of their own. Isn't life good? I know I am having a ball!

A thank you to the best Mom and Dad ever!

Just a note to say thank you to the best Mom and Dad in the world! I want to say thanks for the good job you did as in raising your girls. Thank you for having a stable home. Thank you Dad for loving Mom and thank you Mom for loving Dad. Thank you both for showing us what love looks like and being an example for me to show our child what a loving relationship looks like. Thank you for the guidance and yes, for the discipline, that you gave us throughout our lives. I know that is is because of you both and the teaching and loving we had from you that we can all still be such good friends. I hear about families that are always fighting and not speaking to each other and I always want to say thank you again for not raising us like that. Now that I am the mother of a teenage girl I am so thankful, Mom, that I have you as a role model and am always thinking, how would Mom have handled this? Or what did Mom tell me when I ask these kind of questions?" I so appreciate it that I have that to draw on when I need it. I thank you that your diligence kept me out of trouble and I can hold my head up and be proud of my past and not have to apologize to my daughter for things I might have done if it wasn't for Mom and Dad and your prayers.
I want to thank you, Mom and Dad, for raising us in a Christian home and teaching us Christian values. For living what you believe and showing us how to have confidence in living our beliefs. They always say that we may not like it then but will thank you for it later and they were so right!
Thank you Dad for reading Bible stories to us when we were little and Mom, every time I hear you read something, even now, it always takes be back to when you would read to me while the bigger girls were in school and it was just you and me at home. One of my favorite memories of that time too, is eating fresh tomatoes from the garden with you, with mayo and salt. Dad I remember you let me be the first one to get a ride in the 'The Cart' when you got it put together at Whetstone. I remember how each holiday that came was not a day of rest but it was a 'Work Day" for us girls to help Dad. Thank you for teaching us the joy of a good day's work. There are so many good memories that I could list but I wont. I just hope that I am successful in teaching Sarah Beth as you have taught us, and leaving her with as many wonderful memories and I have.
I thank God I was born into this family and I thank you again, Mom and Dad for all your hard work, teaching, caring and loving. You may not have won the Nobel Prize, discovered a cure for a disease or had a planet named after you but you did raise some beautiful, well adjusted, compassionate, caring, girls and we will pass that legacy down to our children. So you, Mom and Dad, have made this a better world for you just being in it and I cannot thank you enough! Words here cannot convey how thankful I am so I'll just give you a big hug the next time I see you.

1960-65

Here is another album. You can see all of the albums by clicking on the Public Gallery in Picasa.

1952-59

I have started to upload all the old pictures to my Picasa photo albums so all of you can just go there to see them. I tried to start at the beginning and keep them in order. If you see any dates that are out of order just let me know so I can correct it. Just click on the album above to see the photos in that album and all the others. I will continue adding albums as I have time.

Lets put some names to these cute little faces.

Left to right,

Sharon #1, (in Indiana) Rachel #4 (in Kentucky), Lois #3 (in Indiana)

Ruth #5( in Indiana) and Rhoda #2 (deceased)

Here is the next batch, off to new homes.

We went to here the Southern Gospel group called the McKamey's tonight in Marengo. They have a 13 year old boy that plays guitar and sings with them, see him below. He had a kidney transplant just a month ago and Becky wanted to get him a gift.

Remember the little cedar guitar I made last week? This is where it went.

The picture below shows Patty, Janie and Dub's daughter playing the piano, her husband on the mandolin and some Beasley boys doing some good pickin and singing.

1963
Are we just too cute, or what?

Boo!

Here is what we have been up to lately. Terry made 2 of these benches a couple weeks ago, put them in the shop for $25 each. A lady bought them and ordered 5 more. These are the two we made this weekend and delivered. She lives in a cabin by the lake and has them setting around their campfire pit.
Becky ordered the little guitar as a gift for the the McAmeys. They are the southern gospel singers that are really popular right now. One of the band members, a 13 year old boy, has been sick and had a kidney transplant recently. They will be singing in our area this Friday evening and Becky wants to give it to the boy as a gift. Becky is responsible for having them here and has had them come to our area a couple times before. I hope likes his gift.
A lady from Louisville stopped and ordered these signs as Christmas gifts. She will be picking them up this Thursday. $25 each and I made 5 for her. Not bad.


I still have 5 orders in the workshop in different stages of completion. Word seems to be getting out.

We had a church picnic at the park today. It started out a bit chilly this morning but with a bon fire and a little exercise it turned out to be a beautiful day for a picnic!

For all you gals that have lost weight, here is a question for you. Have you ever gone through your closet, back when you were bigger, and in deciding what to keep and what to save, decided to keep some of your skinny clothes thinking someday I'll get skinny again and be able to wear that? Well, I did keep a favorite blue jean skirt that I haven't been able to wear for at least 5 years or more and guess what? I wore it to church this morning! I have been occasionally getting it out and trying it on and usually couldn't even get it to come together at the waist but tried it on this morning and....... bingo!...... It actually buttoned! Yea Me!!!! I just gotta squeeze something!

Well, this is Friday and I have been home about 12 hours this week. Finally I don't have to worry about my house going to rot and ruin while I'm gone, Sis has been a busy little bee. Every time I talk to her on the phone she is cleaning something. Dad usually has the TV and she just finished her book so she is bored and needing something to do. I really appreciate the help, it's about time she starts helping without being told. It may have something to do with a promise of a raise in her allowance too. Anyway, I am just happy that it is happening. Terry has been sick this week and hasn't felt like washing dishes but Friday is Sis' day for dishes so hopefully it will get done. She did say that I don't pay her enough to wash dishes if she doesn't have to. We'll have to work on that I guess.
Today Lois took Sis and Timmy to Derby Dinner Playhouse in Louisville with the homeschool group.
It sounded like a nice little play. I hope they are having fun.
I have a pup for sale this weekend, see it at www.ruthkings.piczo.com He's a cutie.

I invited you on a walk so off we go. It's a beautiful Sept. morning, about 50 degrees outside.

The dogs are all excited, they love to go on a walk. I have an extra companion this morning, I was suprised she actually got out of bed but I was happy to have her.

Little pup got tired and wanted to be carried and she was happy to oblige, for a little while anyway......

Then who got tired? It is only a mile out, so suck it up kid, on your feet, lets go.
I couldn't resist sharing this beautiful blue sky. You don't see that in July or August.
Well, thats all folks, say goodbye Gracie.

Hey Sharon, I just wanted to say thank you for all your comments on everybody's blogs. You can be counted on and it is appreciated. I know when I first started I was discouraged when nobody commented so I know I should be doing better at it. I promise to try anyway.

Well, it's official.....it's officially cold in here this morning. I actually have socks on! I haven't had on a pair of socks since spring but this morning it was socks and a sweatshirt. I think I'll go take a walk out the lane and kick a few fallen leaves around. Wanna come? See you later.

Terry got out the 4 wheeler tonight and Sis insisted I go riding with him so here is Big Biker Momma and her hot Sugar Daddy checking out the wind.

We went out to the site we have pick out for building our new home, about the center of the photo below.
This is the view from the rear, they can't ever seem to catch up. He trys really hard though.

Just another pretty scene along our way.

When we got back home, Sis wanted to take me for a ride. Believe me that wasw a wild ride! She drives faster then Terry does. We did manage to catch these two out enjoying the cool evening. They were watching us just like we were watching them.

This is the view from Bea's dining room window. They disked the fields this year and replanted grass, that is why it is not green but the deer don't seem to mind. They are finding something to eat. In case you can't make them all out, there are 12 out there. The campers love it, the deer are almost tame.

This is Thursday evening and I have been at Bea's since Sunday morning. I did get Wednesday from 9-9 off but had to run errands and had church that night so I was actually home only about 4 hours. I am ready for a day off. Terry made a pot of veggie soup Sunday night and has been eating that for lunch and supper everyday since. He complains alot about having to eat the same thing over and over but I guess he would rather complain then make something new.

Here is how Sis does her school work. Shouldn't we all be so lucky. It was about 60 this morning so the blanket felt good.

A while back we had to make a decision, we had been having so many friends over for sleepovers that is was getting a bit ridiculous. I finally decide enough is enough and made a new rule ( she loves all these rules!) that nobody else comes for a sleepover and she doesn't go anywhere until she finishes up this year's school. It gives her an incentive to work harder and it sure makes it nicer at home. She is working hard though, it shouldn't be long before I have to think up another reason to ground her :)

Lois actually wrote in her blog! If you haven't checked it out, you might want to read it and say a prayer for Timmy.